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Save £10,000 with Mark Oaten

The Lib Dem MP explains how a comparison website saved him a fortune

When Mark Oaten, the Liberal Democrat MP, was told by a price-comparison website that it could save him thousands of pounds, he was sceptical.

Two weeks later, he is on his way to being £10,000 better off.

Oaten was forced to step down from his party's front bench team in 2006 after admitting an affair with a male prostitute, but he remains MP for Winchester where he lives with his wife, Belinda, and their two children.

The family, like most people, have been feeling the pinch, but the credit crunch has at least prompted them to overhaul their bills.

Here, Oaten explains how tangled his finances had become and how he managed to save so much money.

THINGS are changing in the Oaten household. Lights get switched off, the Aga is turned down and cars are used less. No, we've not become eco-warriors, we have been credit crunched.